This Physics textbook presents the basic concepts of physics that students need to know for later courses and future careers. This text helps students learn that physics is a tool for understanding the real world, and to teach transferable problem-solving skills, that students can use throughout their entire lives. Some of the most important enhancements in this edition include: new/updated MCAT exam coverage added and moved online, review and synthesis problems added, new biomedical applications, lists of biomedical applications at the beginning of each chapter, new ranking tasks, checkpoints, and collaborative problems. Connections have also been enhanced to help students see the bigger picture.

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New Features

New “Connections” feature identifies areas in each chapter where important concepts are revisited. A marginal “Connections” heading and summary adjacent to the coverage in the main text help students easily recognize that a previously introduced concept is being applied to the current discussion.

New Checkpoint questions have been added to applicable sections of the text. The answers to the Checkpoints are found at the end of the chapter.

Non-essential coverage and derivations have been moved from the text to the text’s online site. Identifiers in the text direct students to additional information online.

Electronic Media Integration has been incorporated throughout the text. Icons indicate topics in the text where accompanying interactives, animations, and tutorials can be found online to aid in student understanding of physics concepts.

The topical question from the chapter opening vignette now appears in the margin (along with a reduced version of the chapter opening image).

Applications have been clearly identified as such in the text with a complete listing in the front matter.

Many helpful subheadings have been added to the text to help students quickly identify new subtopics.

End-of-chapter problem sets have been revised and include many new problems: over 100 new problems in total.

The number of problems in the Review & Synthesis sections has been increased in the new edition(s); over 30 new problems in total. The MCAT® Review questions have been retained.

McGraw-Hill Connect is a digital teaching and learning environment that improves performance over a variety of critical outcomes; it is easy to use; and it is proven effective.

Available within McGraw-Hill Education’s Connect, SmartBook makes study time as productive and efficient as possible. It identifies and closes knowledge gaps through a continually adapting reading experience that provides personalized learning resources at the precise moment of need. This ensures that every minute spent with SmartBook is returned to the student as the most value-added minute possible. The result? More confidence, better grades, and greater success.

Physics

1) Introduction

Part One - Mechanics

2) Motion Along a Line

3) Motion in a Plane

4) Force and Newton’s Laws of Motion

5) Circular Motion

6) Conservation of Energy

7) Linear Momentum

8) Torque and Angular Momentum

9) Fluids

10) Elasticity and Oscillations

11) Waves

12) Sound

Part Two - Thermal Physics

13) Temperature and the Ideal Gas

14) Heat

15) Thermodynamics

Part Three - Electromagnetism

16) Electric Forces and Fields

17) Electric Potential

18) Electric Current and Circuits

19) Magnetic Forces and Fields

20) Electromagnetic Induction

21) Alternating Current

Part Four - Electromagnetic Waves and Optics

22) Electromagnetic Waves

23) Reflection and Refraction of Light

24) Optical Instruments

25) Interference and Diffraction

Part Five - Quantum and Particle Physics

26) Relativity

27) Early Quantum Physics and the Photon

28) Quantum Physics

29) Nuclear Physics

30) Particle Physics

Appendices

Appendix A - Mathematics Review

Appendix B - Table of Selected Isotopes

Answers to Selected Questions and Problems

About the Author

Alan Giambattista

Alan Giambattista teaches at the Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

New Features

New “Connections” feature identifies areas in each chapter where important concepts are revisited. A marginal “Connections” heading and summary adjacent to the coverage in the main text help students easily recognize that a previously introduced concept is being applied to the current discussion.

New Checkpoint questions have been added to applicable sections of the text. The answers to the Checkpoints are found at the end of the chapter.

Non-essential coverage and derivations have been moved from the text to the text’s online site. Identifiers in the text direct students to additional information online.

Electronic Media Integration has been incorporated throughout the text. Icons indicate topics in the text where accompanying interactives, animations, and tutorials can be found online to aid in student understanding of physics concepts.

The topical question from the chapter opening vignette now appears in the margin (along with a reduced version of the chapter opening image).

Applications have been clearly identified as such in the text with a complete listing in the front matter.

Many helpful subheadings have been added to the text to help students quickly identify new subtopics.

End-of-chapter problem sets have been revised and include many new problems: over 100 new problems in total.

The number of problems in the Review & Synthesis sections has been increased in the new edition(s); over 30 new problems in total. The MCAT® Review questions have been retained.

McGraw-Hill Connect is a digital teaching and learning environment that improves performance over a variety of critical outcomes; it is easy to use; and it is proven effective.

Available within McGraw-Hill Education’s Connect, SmartBook makes study time as productive and efficient as possible. It identifies and closes knowledge gaps through a continually adapting reading experience that provides personalized learning resources at the precise moment of need. This ensures that every minute spent with SmartBook is returned to the student as the most value-added minute possible. The result? More confidence, better grades, and greater success.